Lifting the Burden ...

Realizing the Dream

Great medicine now. Great medicine for the future.

You can help train the next generations of students at the University of Michigan who are learning how to be the great physicians of tomorrow. Your $5,000 named annual scholarship gift provides immediate support for a medical student at Michigan now. And if you leave $100,000 or more in your will to the University for medical scholarship support, your $5,000 gift, in effect, will go on forever. (A $100,000 bequest gift for a named endowed scholarship in the U-M Medical School generates about $5,000 in distributions the first year. As the fund grows over time, those distributions — about five percent of the corpus of the fund — grow larger as well.)

Lisa Allred (M.D. 2003), house officer in the U-M Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, with 3-week-old Dakotah Mix, a patient in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at U-M. Dakotah developed a blood clot in one of his kidneys at birth, which caused him to experience extremely high blood pressure and heart complications. He was rushed to the U-M via Survival Flight. After some time in the NICU with Allred and her colleagues, Dakotah was well enough to go home not long after this photo was taken. Photo by Martin Vloet.

To learn more about how your gifts, current and future, can benefit medical students, residents and fellows at the University of Michigan, please call Jim Thomas at (800) 468-3482 or e-mail him at jimthom@umich.edu. To obtain a DVD or VHS copy of “Lifting the Burden … Realizing the Dream,” (winner of the 2004 Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Institutional Advancement Award of Excellence) a 12-minute film describing the difference your support will make, please e-mail Karin Roberts at karinr@umich.edu.